DSUSD Suggested List
Grades 9-12

Click the following for :     Biography/Autobiography     Fiction
                                                                     Non-
Fiction         Reluctant Readers



The books listed here have been chosen for their literary merit and appeal to young adult readers. However, each parent must review his/her child's reading selections to ensure the material meets his/her personal standard(s).


BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Child Called It; Lost Boy; A Man Called Dave -- Pelzer, David
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel -- Hoffman, Banesh
All Creatures Great and Small -- Herriot, James
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
-- Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez
Angela's Ashes -- McCourt, Frank
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie -- Carnegies, Andrew
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Franklin, Benjamin
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The -- Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)
Bell Jar, The -- Plath, Sylvia
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth -- Wright, Richard
Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, The
-- McBride, James
Coming of Age in Mississippi -- Moody, Ann
Dear America: Letter Home from Vietnam -- Edelman, Bernard (ed)
East to the Dawn (Ameila Earhart) -- Butler, Susan
Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1: 1884 - 1933 -- Cook, Blanche Wiesen
For The Love of the Game -- Jordan, Michael
Growing Up -- Baker, Russell
House of Houses -- Mora, Pat
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez:
An Autobiography -- Rodriguez, Richard
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Angelou, Maya
Ice  Bound -- Nielsen, Dr. Jerri
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in
Apartheid South  Africa -- Mathabane, Mark
Liars' club: A Memoir, The -- Karr, Mary
Life is So Good -- Watson, George
My Brother -- Kincaid, Jamaica
Napoleon -- Ludwig, Emil
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself 
-- Douglass, Frederick
Nicholas and Alexandra -- Massie, Robert K.
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution -- Jiang, Ji-li
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865 - 1992
-- Khanga, Yelena
Sound-Shadows of the New World -- Mehta, Ved
Stonewall Jackson:  The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
-- Robertson, James I.
Truman -- McCullough, David G.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the
Opening of  the American West -- Ambrose, Stephen E.

FICTION

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea -- Verne, Jules
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, and A Thanksgiving Visitor
-- Capote, Truman
A Lesson Before Dying -- Gaines, Ernest
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn -- Smith, Betty
Alas, Babylon -- Frank, Pat
And Then There Were None -- Christie, Agatha
Andromeda Strain, The -- Crichton, Michael
Animal Farm -- Orwell, George
Anne of Green Gables -- Montgomery, Lucy
April Morning -- Fast, Howard
As I Lay Dying -- Faulkner, William
Atlas Shrugged -- Rand, Ayn
Babbitt -- Lewis, Sinclair
Brave New World -- Huxley, Aldous
Caves of Steel -- Azimov, Isaac
Chosen, The -- Potok, Chaim
Cimarron -- Ferber, Edna
Client, The -- Grisham, John
Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court, A -- Twain, Mark
Cress Delahanty -- West, Jessamyn
Cross Creek -- Rawlings, Marjorie K.
Cujo -- King, Steven
Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Cather, Willa
Divine Comedy -- Alighierl, Dante
Ender's Game -- Card, Orson Scott
Escape to Freedom -- Davis, Ossie
Fifth Chinese Daughter -- Wong, Jade Snow
Firestarter -- King, Steven
Flowers for Algernon -- Keyes, Daniel
For Love of the Game -- Shaara, Michael
Gulag Archipelago, The -- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander
Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad
-- Petry, Ann Lane
Harry Potter Series -- Rowlings, J.K.
History of Tom Jones, The -- Fielding, Henry
Hobbit, The -- Tolkien
Holes -- Sachar, Louis
I Am the Cheese -- Cormier, Robert
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden -- Green, Hannah
Icy Sparks -- Rubio, Gwyn Hyman
In Country -- Mason, Bobbi Ann
Into The Wild -- Krakauer, Jon
Intruder in the Dust -- Faulkner, William
Jesse -- Soto, Gary
Johnathan Livingston Seagull -- Bach, Richard
Jurassic Park -- Crichton, Michael
Killer Angels -- Shaara, Michael
Last of the Mohicans, The -- Cooper, James Fenmore
Lonesome Dove -- McMurtry, Larry
Lost World -- Crichton, Michael
Macho - Victor Villasenor -- Villasenor, Victor
Magician of Lublin -- Singer, Issaac B.
Man and Superman -- Shaw, George Bernard
Man in the Iron Mask -- Dumas, Alexandre
Mists of Avalon -- Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Monkey Wrench Gang -- Abbey, Edward
Oliver Twist -- Dickens, Charles
On Golden Pond -- Thompson, Ernest
On the Beach -- Shute, Nevil
Picture of Dorian Gray -- Wilde, Oscar
Pilot's Wife, The -- Shreve, Anita
Rabbit, Run -- Updike, John
Ragtime -- Doctorow, E.L.
Rats -- Zindel, Paul
Rebecca -- Du Maurier, Daphne
Red Storm Rising -- Clancy, Tom
Resistance -- Shreve, Anita
Shoeless Joe -- Kinsella, W.P.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde, The -- Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tale of Two Cities, A -- Dickens, Charles
Thief of Time, The -- Hillerman, Tony
Three Musketeers, The -- Dumas, Alexandre
Time Machine, The -- Wells, HG
Treasure Island -- Stevenson, Robert Louis
U.S.A. (trilogy) -- Dos Passos, John
Walk to Remember -- Sparks, Nicholas
Where The Heart Is -- Letts, Billie

NON-FICTION
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
-- Hawking, Stephen
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
-- Sheehan, Neil
All The Presidents Men -- Woodward, Bob
American Democrat, The -- Cooper, James Fenmore
Art of War, The -- Tzu, Sun
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The  -- Gaines, Ernest J.
Black Like Me -- Griffin, John Howard
Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion, The -- Blackstone Jr., Harry
Born Free -- Adamson, Joy
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- Brown, Dee
Chicken Soup for the Soul Series -- Canfield, Jack
Climb, The -- Boukreev, Anatoli
Cosmos -- Sagan, Carl
Das Capital -- Marx, Karl
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon, Edward
Democracy in America -- de Tocqueville, Alex
Desert Solitare -- Abbey, Edward
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
-- Asinof, Eliot
Executioner's Song, The -- Mailer, Norman
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
-- Williams, Juan
Hiding Place, The -- Ten Boom, Cory
Hot Zone, The -- Preston, Richard
How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Carnegie, Dale
I Will Fight No More Forever -- Chief Joseph
In Cold Blood -- Capote, Truman
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle -- Blais, Madeleine
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
-- Krakauer, Jon
Living Planet, The -- Attenborough, David
Mutiny on Board the HMS Bounty -- Bligh, Capt. William
Needles: A Memoir of Growing Up With Diabetes -- Andie Dominick
Night to Remember, A -- Lord, Walter
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
-- Humes, Ed
Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
-- Shandler, Sara
Origin of the Species, The -- Darwin, Charles
Other side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death and
America's Dilemma, The -- Kotlowitz, Alex
Paper Lion -- Plimpton, George
Perfect Storm, The -- Junger, Sebastian
Prince, The -- Machiavelli, Niccolo
Profiles in Courage -- Kennedy, John
Search for King Arthur, The -- Day, David
Shadow -- Woodward, Bob
She Said Yes -- Bernall, Misty
Shindler's List -- Keneally, Thomas
South -- Shackleton, Ernest
Summer of 49 -- Halberstam, David
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom -- Alvarez, Walter
Thomas Jefferson & His Times -- Malone, Dumas
Tuesday's With Morrie -- Albom, Mitch
Two Years Before the Mast -- Dana, Richard Henry
Up From Liberalism -- Buckley, Jr., William, F
Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for
Disease Control -- Regis, Ed
Voices of Aids: Twelve Unforgettable People Talk About How AIDS Has Changed Their Lives, The -- Ford, Michael Thomas

FOR RELUCTANT READERS
Bud, Not Buddy -- Curtis, Christopher Paul
Burning Up -- Cooney, Caroline
Edgar Allen -- Neufeld, John
Ella Enchanted -- Levin, Gail Carson
Giver, The -- Lowry, Lois
Hatchet -- Paulsen, Gary
Hush Little Baby -- Cooney, Caroline
I Know What You Did Last Summer -- Duncan, Lois
Night John -- Paulsen, Gary
Westing Game, The -- Raskin, Ellen